We use empiricism, reasoning, and observation to explain them.

我们、推理观察来解释它们。

Yet the “buffer theory” seems to be based on weak empirical foundations.

但，“缓冲理论”似乎建立在薄弱的基础之上的。

But some scientific activities are primarily theoretical, and different disciplines approach empiricism with varying goals, methodologies, and standards.

但有些科学活动理论性质的，每个学科关于也存在着不同的目标、方式标准。

He knows his empiricism from his logical positivism, and as you'll hear, computers found a way into his philosophy.

他从他的逻辑实证中了解他的，你将会听到，计算机找到了进入他的哲学的方法。

And it's sort of half empirics and half sort of storytelling.

这一半， 一半讲故事。

" I think I'm beginning to see what empiricism is" .

” “我想我开始明白什么了” 。

In reality, we still live in an age of empiric, trial-and-error imprecision medicine.

事实上，我们仍然生活在一个、反复试的不精确医学时代。

Thanks in large part to the empiricism of behavioural economics, it is less wedded to abstractions like the perfectly rational actor.

要得益于行为济学的，法律济学不再那么执着于完全理性的行为者等抽象概念。

So we usually make a distinction between British empiricism and Continental rationalism." " What a lot of difficult words!

所以我们通常会把英国的大陆的理性区分开来。” “好难听的话！

Chomsky's innateness hypothesis is based on his observations that some important facts can never be otherwise explained adequately.

乔姆斯基认为语言天生的，儿童与生俱来的拥有一种语言学习的能力，叫做" 语言习得机制" 。这一种让他们适合语言学习的独特知识。乔指出儿童天生被赋予一种能力，不仅包括学习语言的趋势潜能，还包括关于语言性质的知识。从这种观点可看出，儿童天生拥有语法关系及语法范畴的知识，并且这种知识普遍的。这种处理语言的方法，对心理学的行为哲学上的的一种挑战，并使语言学成为了心理学的一个分支。乔姆斯基的天赋假设建立在他对一些重要现象的观察的基础之上的，这些现象无法其他的理论解释清楚。

The rest of us, the evidence seekers, are still plenty irrational and magical, but we mostly defer to science and empiricism.

我们其他人，即证据寻求者，仍然有很多非理性神奇的东西，但我们大多服从科学。

You may recall that Locke was not consistent in his empiricism. He believed, for example, that faith in God and certain moral norms were inherent in human reason.

你可能还记得洛克在他的上并不一致。 他认为，例如，对上帝的信仰某些道德规范人类理性中固有的。

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits (particularly in word order) shared by many languages, which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

第二次努力——由乔舒亚·格林伯格做出——采更为的方法来研究语言的普遍性，确定了多种语言（尤其在语法词序方面）的共有特征，这些特征被认为代表了由认知局限产生的倾向。